Made for Toil: Natural selection at the dawn of agriculture
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- Jacob L. Weisdorf, 2007. "Made for Toil: Natural selection at the dawn of agriculture," PSE Working Papers halshs-00587788, HAL.
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hunting; labour input; Malthus; metabolism; neolithic revolution; patience capital;All these keywords.
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